Nothing gives one person so
much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under
all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
The best things in life aren’t
things.
Art Buchwald
Nothing is so common-place as
to wish to be remarkable
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Of all the animals, man is the
only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure
of doing it.
Mark Twain
One should guard against preaching
to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The
most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work,
pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to
the community
Albert Einstein
Sex is the great amateur art.
The professional, male or female, is frowned on; he or she misses the whole
point and spoils the show
David Cort
The American Constitution is,
so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given
time by the brain and purpose of man.
William Gladstone
The chief problem about death,
incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing
thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there
is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being
held
Woody Allen
The greatest evil which fortune
can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
Luc de Clapiers
The sky is the daily bread of
the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true meaning of life is to
plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
There are no shortcuts to any
place worth going.
Beverly Sills
There are several good protections
against temptation but the surest is cowardice
Mark Twain
There are some remedies worse
than the disease
Publilius Syrus
To the uneducated, an A is just
three sticks.
A. A. Milne
We adore chaos because we love
to produce order.
M. C. Escher
We will have no truce or parlay
with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do
your worst -- and we will do our best.
Sir Winston Churchill
Whatever our souls are made up,
his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
Whenever it is possible, a boy
should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need
the money.
William Lyon Phelps
Where prejudice exists it always
discolors our thoughts
Mark Twain
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